Constituency
381. Arakkonam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ARAKKONAM
AIADMK 51.6%won by 7.1%TMCM 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: TMCM (TMCM) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 7.1%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 51.6% of the vote here (+51.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.7% to 65.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,72,687
Turnout
65.0%
Valid votes
6,97,078
Margin
49,488
7.10%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1GOPAL CAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,59,43151.6%
- 2VELU A.M.TMCM · TMCM3,09,94344.5%
- 3DHAMOTHARAN RIndian National Congress · INC24,5193.5%
- 4KANDAPPAN AIndependent · IND1,1200.2%
- 5NATARAJAN S.M.N.SHSP · SHSP1,0780.2%
- 6MANIEZHILAN PULAVARSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP9870.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TMCM
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–TMCM swing
- +66.1%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 51.6%
- TMCM share
- 59.0% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- 69.7% → 65.0%